It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.